1870 April 22: Born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia. 1887 May: Brother, Alexander, hanged for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander III. 1893 Joined underground Social Democratic circle called “Elders.” 1897 May: Exiled to Siberia following a prison term. 1900-05 Traveled, wrote, and conducted work of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (forerunner of Communist Party of Soviet Union) in Germany, England, Switzerland, Belgium. Returned to Russia in November, 1905. 1905 December: Lenin and Stalin met for first time at Bolshevik Conference, Tammerfors (Tampere), Finland. 1907 Went abroad and did not return to live in Russia until 1917. 1917 April 16: Returned to Russia and arrived in capital, Petrograd (now Leningrad) from Switzerland. 1917 November 7: Directed Bolshevik uprising. 1917-24 Dictator of Soviet Russia. 1924 January 21: Died. =JOSEPH STALIN= 1879 December 21: Born in Gori, Georgia, the Caucasus (Russia). 1899 Expelled from theological seminary at Tiflis. 1905 December: Delegate to Bolshevik Conference in Finland and met Lenin for first time. 1906 Participated in Fourth Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Stockholm, Sweden. 1902-17 Engaged in revolutionary activities in Russia; arrested and exiled number of times. 1917 Participated in October Revolution of Bolsheviks. 1917-23 People’s Commissar for the Affairs of the Nationalities. 1922 Became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party. 1922-29 Consolidation of personal power, leading in 1929 to expulsion of Trotsky from Russia. 1929-53 Supreme dictator of Soviet Russia. 1953 March 5: Died in the Kremlin, Moscow. 1956 Denounced at Twentieth Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. II International Communist Organizations and Publications =COMMUNIST LEAGUE= 1847 Communist League organized under Marx’s influence from League of the Just. 1852 Communist League dissolved at Marx’s proposal. =FIRST INTERNATIONAL= 1864 The First International, or International Workingmen’s Association, founded in London. 1872 First International voted to move headquarters to New York on Engels’ proposal. Split over the proposal caused eventual dissolution. 1876 July 15: First International dissolved in congress at Philadelphia. =SECOND INTERNATIONAL (SOCIALIST)= 1889 July 14: The Second International formed at Paris. 1914-18 Effective work of Second International, to all intents and purposes, ended during World War I. Violently attacked by Lenin as “bourgeois.” =THIRD (COMMUNIST) INTERNATIONAL Also Known As COMINTERN=